After Hong Renquan's family returned to their hometown, they buried Miao Cuihua's mother first, and Hong Xinbao and his wife Miao Cuihua both wore linen and filial piety for the old man. Although the old man has been dead for many days, Miao Cuihua is still crying. Miao Cuihua thought of being dependent on her mother for many years, but now that her mother was suddenly gone, her heart was as broken as a knife. Hong Xinbao saw his wife crying so sadly, and thought of the ups and downs in the past two years, and the old man was bumpy and displaced outside, the old man cared for them meticulously, and worked diligently to dress and cook, he was also very sad, crying, and comforting his wife with kind words.

After burying the old man, within two months, Miao Cuihua, who was already pregnant for ten months, gave birth to a daughter, this daughter is a heroine we will talk about in the later story, a tragic heroine in folklore - Hongxiu Girl.

But less than two years after Hongxiu was born, Miao Cuihua married Hong Xinbao in Hongjiazhuang and became a wife and gave birth to a daughter. After Miao Sangui knew about this, he was very annoyed and said angrily: "In the past four or five years, Miao Cuihua has never heard from me again, and I am anxious enough every day, thinking about it every day, but it turned out to be four or five years, but I was abducted by Hong Xinbao, who was an artist. No, just because of the pain I have been missing every day for the past four or five years, I can't swallow this breath, I must snatch the green flowers back. ”

So, this Miao Sangui relieved a group of family members under him, and prepared to go to Hong's house to rob people.

But his gang got benefits, and there was a smart one who knew that Hong Xinbao's father and son were performing along the street, and they must have certain martial arts skills, I am afraid that they went, needless to say Hong Renquan, it was Hong Xinbao himself, and they were not opponents, so they offered advice to Miao Sangui and said: "Third young master, I'm afraid this is inappropriate." ”

Miao Sangui said angrily: "Obviously, it was their Hong family who kidnapped my unmarried wife, and took advantage of me before me, so what's wrong with me going to grab it back?"

The smart man said: "Third young master, I don't mean that this is inappropriate, I mean, that Hong Xinbao and his father are both born as artists along the street, and they must both have martial arts skills, I am afraid that if we go to rob them, not only will we not be able to rob people, but they will also be beaten." It's still a trivial matter to be beaten by them, I'm afraid that we haven't grabbed people yet, so we'll startle the snakes, what if they leave the country and never come back? At that time, won't the third young master not even be able to see Miao Cuihua's face again?"

Miao Sangui was reminded by his words, so Miao Sangui asked, "Then what do you say?"

The clever family said: "Third young master, I think we might as well report this matter to the county government hall and give the county government master some silver, you think that the official in this world now, the cat who does not eat fish, eats fish." As long as you let the county lord get the silver, let the county lord sentence Miao Cuihua back for you. In front of the government, I don't believe it, although the father and son of the Hong family know martial arts, how can they help the government? At that time, isn't it that the county lord has waved a big pen, and the steady Miao Cuihua will be in your hands?"

Miao Sangui was happy when he heard this, and said: "Yes, you are so smart, just do it, I will let you Miao Cuihua not follow me to enjoy the happiness, you have to run with others, and you can't run now." ”

So, Miao Sangui went to the government to tell Hong Xinbao to borrow from Miaojiazhuang to sell his art, and kidnapped his wife Miao Cuihua, who had not yet passed the door. In comparison with Miao Sangui, the county magistrate saw that Miao Sangui did not look like a person at all, and that a beautiful woman like Miao Cuihua would take a fancy to a person like Miao Sangui? But at this moment, Miao Sangui saw that it was really not okay not to give the county official money, so he hurriedly squeezed his eyes and said to the county order: "Lord County Official, I have something to say to the Lord of the County Government alone, please let me speak to the Lord of the County Government alone." ”

The county magistrate is talking to the smart family of the Miao family, it is a cat who loves to eat fish. So as soon as he heard this, he was very sensitive and interested, and he knew what Miao Sangui meant when he said this. Therefore, he immediately came and screamed: "Miao Sangui, do you want to have anything to say to this official? Are you still ashamed to let people hear it?"

Miao Sangui hurriedly squeezed his little eyes and said: "It's the master, the master is really an understanding person, just like seeing the villain's heart." ”

The county magistrate immediately held back the joy in his heart as if he had a code: "Okay, this official sees your pitiful appearance, so I will give you this opportunity to come with this official." ”

So, he motioned to lead Miao Sangui to the back hall, and the county official suddenly said: "Miao Sangui, what do you want to say to the official? Bring it quickly? How much? You won't disappoint the official too much, right?"

Miao Sangui began to feel the county official's opening to the point feeling sudden, and then reacted and immediately said: "The county official is worthy of being an understanding person, I haven't said that you know?" As he spoke, he took out a silver ticket from his sleeve and handed it to the county order: "Master, this silver ticket is my special filial piety to you, please let the county official fulfill me and Cuihua, as long as the county official fulfills me, I will have filial piety to the county official in the future." ”

The county magistrate took the silver ticket and saw that it was 1,000 taels of silver, and when he heard that there was filial piety in the future, he was immediately overjoyed, and happily carried away in the words of his hometown: "I just saw that your kid is not authentic, but it turns out that your kid is really not authentic, if it is authentic, how can you give me unauthentic silver?"

Miao Sangui was a little nervous and said: "I, I know that the county official is a smart person, and my little scene can't be hidden from the county official, so the county official can see it." The county magistrate is just unusually smart, and he can't hide anything from the county magistrate. As long as the county official fulfills me and Cuihua, I will never forget the county official, if Cuihua can live with me and have a child, I will give the county official another 2,000 taels of silver. ”

The county magistrate was even more overjoyed when he heard the two thousand taels, and he was overjoyed, and he could think that Zhu Yuanzhang would skin people alive, so he got carried away and didn't care whether the human skin could still be on himself, so he smiled and said: "Okay, okay, just talk and count, that's it, today's official looks at the silver, and it will be a complete two of you kids, okay, go back to the lobby with the official, and see how the official will judge Miao Cuihua to you today." ”

After speaking, the two of them happily returned to the lobby with their own benefits, and the county official immediately lifted the shocking wood again, slapped it on the table again, and turned his face to Hong Xinbao and said angrily: " Hong Xinbao, you, a non-authentic Diao Min who sells art along the street, just now Miao Sangui told me all the things that he didn't look very good and not authentic, because he didn't look very good-looking, so Miao Cuihua was deceived and abducted by your inauthentic talent, and was blinded by your inauthentic talent, so he didn't speak for you authentically, and didn't tell the truth for Miao Sangui. How could Miao Cuihua be willing to take a fancy to you? Naturally, it was caused by your temporary inauthentic blindness, and today I almost deceived the officials in this lobby without authenticity, come on, quickly put the unauthentic Hong Xinbao to the prison first. ”

The officials were stunned by the county official's shouting, and then reacted, and they all immediately rushed up together, and without saying anything, they shackled Hong Xinbao and sent him to prison. When Miao Cuihua saw it, she hurriedly rushed up crying and grabbed Hong Xinbao, shouting that she was wronged, and cried and knelt down to kowtow to the county official.

The county magistrate looked at it, gritted his teeth again, and said, "Pull the unauthentic Miao Cuihua aside for me first, and put Hong Xinbao in prison without hesitation." ”

So, Miao Cuihua, who was crying and shouting that she was wronged, was pulled aside, and Hong Xinbao was dragged out of prison.

Seeing that Hong Xinbao was in prison, the county official said to Miao Cuihua, who was crying and shouting that he was wronged: "Miao Cuihua, this official knows that you have been deceived by the unauthentic Hong Xinbao. Now that Hong Xinbao has violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty and has been imprisoned, you should go and follow Miao Sangui. This official thinks that you have been deceived by Hong Xinbao's unearthly deception, so I will not hold you accountable, you should hurry up and go home with Miao Sangui to live your good life. Such a rich family, you should be happy, isn't it better than the Hong Xinbao family who doesn't show up how authentic it is?" After speaking, he said to the servant: "Miao Sangui, a half-crippled and unauthentic person, really makes the official pitiful to the house, and even his wife can be abducted inauthentically, and now his wife has not been abducted and deceived and has not recovered his heart, so you can send his wife to his home." ”

So, the officials said, "Obey." He immediately dragged Miao Cuihua along, and no matter what kind of tearful person Miao Cuihua cried again, he dragged Miao Cuihua out of the lobby.

The official dragged Miao Cuihua out of the county office, and Miao Cuihua saw Miao Sangui, who was proud of the three-point elephant man and seven-point elephant ghost, and cried even more vividly, and the crying voice was even more miserable. The official was also a little unbearable to cry, seeing such a beautiful woman, but she had to fall into the hands of a person like Miao Sangui, who was not a ghost or a ghost, this is simply a beautiful flower into the cow dung. Moreover, Miao Sangui secretly stuffed each of them with a silver ingot, so they no longer cared about his bad conscience, so they had to do what the county official told them. So, Miao Cuihua was dragged to Miao Sangui's house by crying alive.

As soon as he entered Miao Sangui's house, the official said: "The person has sent you back, you have to watch it yourself." ”

Miao Sangui said: "It must be, thank you for your mission." As he spoke, he ordered someone to take a silver tael, and each official rewarded a silver ingot, and instructed the family: "Give me Miao Cuihua to sleep." Miao Cuihua didn't see it well, so she was going to hit the wall, and she was pulled back by the quick-eyed servant, and was tied up by the yashou and the Miao family's family. ”

Miao Sangui said: "Thank you, Lord Qincha. ”

The officials said: "You're welcome. And he took his leave.

After the official went, Miao Sangui saw Miao Cuihua crying constantly, so he said: "It's useless for you to cry now, who let you run away at that time?

Miao Cuihua still howled as if she hadn't heard. Miao Sangui said: "Plug her mouth for me, I will make her cry again, and she won't be able to cry if she wants to." ”

So, the family hurriedly came up and plugged Miao Cuihua's mouth with a cloth, Miao Cuihua's eyes were tearful, but she couldn't cry, and that night, she was insulted by Miao Sangui, because she couldn't bear the humiliation, she knocked Miao Sangui to the ground, and her head touched the pillar and died.

Hong Renquan knew that his son had been imprisoned and his daughter-in-law had died tragically in Miao's house, and he was extremely sad and angry. But he saw that his young and helpless granddaughter was unsupported, and his son was uncertain about life and death in prison, although he had a heart of revenge, but he still endured his grief and anger and looked at the only bit of flesh and blood left by his daughter-in-law Miao Cuihua, and his young granddaughter still endured it. However, where is there so much silver in his hand? Where can he satisfy the selfish desires of the greedy cat and corrupt official? Without more silver, he can't feed the greedy cat and corrupt official, and naturally people can't save him.

After another two years, the county officials were exposed because of their corruption and perversion of the law, and they were ordered by Zhu Yuanzhang to be escorted to the capital to make up a number of 100 corrupt officials, and they were skinned alive and stripped to death. So the county government changed another county official, and after Hong Renquan heard about it, he asked someone to go to the county government to explain the truth, and Hong Xinbao was released from the county government prison.

After Hong Xinbao came out, he returned home, and when he saw that the child and her mother were gone, he asked: "Dad, where is Cuihua? Why didn't you see her? Where did she go?"

Hong Renquan couldn't help crying when his son asked him like this, and said, "How could this hard-working child die like this?"

Hong Xinbao burst into tears when he heard this: "Dad, you say, how did Cuihua get bent to death?"

Hong Renquan cried and said: "You went to the county office, and I didn't see you come back, after I knew, Cuihua had already died in the Miao family." ”

When Hong Xinbao heard this, he was extremely sad and angry, and Miao Sangui's little demon-like appearance couldn't help but rush to his heart, making him grit his teeth and tearfully make a cross heart, and after tearing up repeatedly looking at his daughter who would call him dad and look at him sadly and crying, and then thinking about Cuihua's beautiful face, he couldn't help but cry when he looked up to the sky, crying: " Cuihua, I can't live with you, I didn't play the role of a husband, I didn't protect you, it's all my fault, I can't live with you in this life, I must be sorry for you in the next life, can we still be together in the next life? As he spoke, he picked up his daughter, who had already seen him cry, and said, "Daughter, my good daughter, you must not forget your mother, don't forget your father." ”

After speaking, he put his daughter down and said to Hong Renquan: "Dad, where is Cuihua's grave? ”

Hong Renquan said: "After Cuihua died, I wanted to bury her and her mother together, but the Miao family didn't give it, and the Miao family said that Cuihua was the daughter-in-law of the Miao family, and death was the ghost of the Miao family, so they buried Cuihua in the cemetery of the Miao family." ”

Hong Xinbao said: "The Miao family is too deceitful, I want to go to see Cuihua, tonight, I will go to Cuihua's grave to guard Cuihua's grave for the night." Daddy, where is that sword? I'm going to use it to keep the green flower all night. ”

Hong Renquan couldn't help but cry too, and said: "Cuihua, this child, entered our Hong family's door, and didn't live a day of settling down, child, you are back, it is also appropriate to go and guard her for a night, you can go." So saying, he found the ancestral sword that was used for performing arts and gave it to his son.

Hong Xinbao took the sword in his hand, looked at the sword, gritted his teeth, and then looked at his daughter who was crying upwards, and said to Hong Renquan: "Dad, you have to take a good look at Cuihua's child, I'll go first." ”

Hong Renquan said: "You go, child, when the guard is over, you will come back early tomorrow." ”

Hong Xinbao said: "Okay, please rest assured. With that, he took his sword and went out.

At night, Hong Xinbao came to the Miao family cemetery, found Miao Cuihua's grave according to Miao Cuihua's tombstone, and saw that Miao Cuihua's grave was already covered with grass, so he knelt down and cried loudly.

Hong Xinbao knelt in front of Miao Cuihua's grave and cried sadly, crying and remembering the scene of living in harmony with Cuihua in the past, although the days are hard, but Cuihua is not afraid of the bitter days, they still live happily, care about each other very well, but now Cuihua will go before him and die tragically, thinking that Cuihua would rather commit suicide than succumb to betray him, so that his heart is like being dug out, so he can't help but think of Miao Sangui who can't make Cuihua happy in his life, this three-point like a man and a seven-point ghost ghost Yama King, he can't help gritting his teeth and swearing: "The hatred of taking my wife, the hatred of killing my wife, how can I Hong Xinbao admit it? I can't bear it, it's hard to stand up to the cuihua who died for me under the nine springs. Cuihua, I must avenge you, I Hong Xinbao will not avenge you, I swear not to be a man. ”

Saying that, Hong Xinbao got up, so he gritted his teeth and left Miao Cuihua's grave, and then that night, in the middle of the night, the third watch sneaked to Miao Sangui's house and killed all 20 members of Miao Sangui's family.

After killing Miao Sangui's family, Hong Xinbao was arrested by the county officials, and within a month, he was arrested by Qin Yilang, a famous arrester from the state officials, and was detained in the city Cao, ready to be beheaded.

Hong Renquan has been worried about his son being held since his son killed someone and disappeared, and when he heard that his son was caught and was going to be beheaded, he hurriedly ran to the county town with his granddaughter in his arms, hoping to let his son see the two of them for the last time, so that his son could see his daughter Hong Xiunu before he died.